I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.

The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.

Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me...and still is.

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

All creative people want to do the unexpected.

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Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

As I die, and my life flashes before my eyes, I want to see who made faces at me when I turned my head. That's all I want to see.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

It is not enough to deface the Mona Lisa because that does not kill the Mona Lisa. All art of the past must be destroyed.

Work always as if you were a master, expect from yourself a masterpiece.

In the 27 years I've been doing this I never thought I'd find a better wrestler than me, but I found him. Daniel Bryan.